The five Human Design types and what they mean

Human Design sorts every chart into one of five types by asking two questions of its structure. Is the Sacral defined? And is a motor center, the Heart, the Sacral, the Solar Plexus or the Root, joined through defined channels to a defined Throat? A defined Sacral with such a motor makes a Manifesting Generator, and without one a Generator. An open Sacral with a motor reaching the Throat makes a Manifestor, and without one a Projector. A chart with no channel at all skips both questions: every center is open, and the type is Reflector.

Each type comes with a strategy. A Generator responds, and a Manifesting Generator responds, then informs. The Projector waits for an invitation. A Manifestor informs before acting, while the Reflector waits a lunar cycle. Most of the sample in the table below falls to the two Sacral types, and the Reflector is the rarest by far.

A page is unable to say which type a reader has. The type comes from the whole chart, and the chart needs the exact birth moment: date, time and place. On some days the type changes with the minute of birth. The chart tool on this site works it out from those three facts. Each type has its own page in the table, and the guide to the seven authorities covers the next question a chart answers: how a decision is made.